sorrel


Definition: Meaning of, sorrel in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈsɒr(ə)l /

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  1. a plant with leaves that taste bitter, sometimes used in cooking
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sorrel used in phrases

  • French sorrel (noun)
    1. greens having small tart oval to pointed leaves; preferred to common sorrel for salads
    2. low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
  • Jamaica sorrel (noun)
    1. east Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fibre
  • common sorrel (noun)
    1. large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces
  • common wood sorrel (noun)
    1. eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
  • creeping wood sorrel (noun)
    1. creeping much-branched mat-forming weed; cosmopolitan
  • garden sorrel (noun)
    1. low perennial with small silvery-green ovate to hastate leaves
    2. european sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens
  • red sorrel (noun)
    1. east Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fibre
  • sheep sorrel (noun)
    1. small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  • sheep's sorrel (noun)
    1. small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
  • sorrel tree (noun)
    1. deciduous shrubby tree of eastern North America having deeply fissured bark and sprays of small fragrant white flowers and sour-tasting leaves
    2. australian tree with acid foliage
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